Garment-clasp.



No. 722,308. PATENTED lMAR. l0, 1.903.

0. KEMPER. I GARMENT CLASP. APPLIoATroN rxLpn Jim1: 11. 1*'902..

N0 MODEL.

Unitarian STATES PATENT' OFFICE.

OTTO KEMPER, OF BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNEASSIGNMENTS, OF ONE-HALF TO J. EDWARD BOONE, OF ALMEDIA,

PENNSYLVANIA.

GARNI ENT-CLASP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 722,308, dated March10, 1903.

Application tiled June 11,1902. Serial No. ll1,1t39,.l (No model.)

To all 1071.071?, ritcty concern/.-

Be it known that I, OTTO KEMPER, a citi- Zen of the United States,residing at 316 West Fourth street, Bloomsburg, in the county ofColumbia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Garment-Olasps, ot which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to garment-clasps, and has for its object theproduction of a device of this character especially adapted to besecured to suspender-ends,\vhereby a garment may be suspended, therebyobviating the necessity of buttons on the garment and loops on thesuspender-ends.

A further object of the invention is to provide improved means wherebythe clasp may secure a rm grip upon the garment, obviating any liabilityof the clasp becoming casually detached therefrom.

The invention consists in the novel construction, combination, andarrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described andclaimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- YFigure 1 is a perspective view of a device constructed in accordancewith my invention, showing it as applied. Fig. 2 is a verticallongitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectionon the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

1 and 2 designate clamping-plates curved in a transverse direction, asshown by Fig. 3, the upper ends of which are bent to form hinge-leaves3, through which passes a bail 4, one of its members forming a pintle 5.

The clamping-plate 1 comprises an elongated body portion 6, havingnotches 7 running transversely thereof. The said body portion graduallywidens, forminga head 8, provided with a struck-up portion .9,serving asa socket.

The arm 2 is elongated and has its lower end bent at a right angle,forming a lip 10 to tit within the socket 9.

11 designates a sliding bail embracing the arms 1 and 2, and has itsarms provided near their ends with perforations 12, in which arejournaled the laterally-projecting lugs 13 of the cam-lever 14. The saidlever is formed of a single piece of metal, one end of which is bent ataright angle, forming a cam 15 to engage one of the notches in the plate1, and its edge is cut out to conform to the contour of the arm 1. Thesaid cam is provided with the lugs 13 above referred to, which arejournaled in the'pertoration 12 of the bail 11, and the opposite end ofsaid Ylever is bent upon itself to form a finger-grasp 16.

rThe utility and operation of the device may be explained as follows:The clasp may be attached to any suitable supporting -strap through themedium ot the bail 4, and the clamping-plates placed over the edge ofthe garment to be supported and secured thereto by the jaws beingbrought together, forcing the lip 10 and a portion of the garment intothe socket S) by sliding the bail 11 down the arms to the limit of itsmovement and throwing the cam 15 into engagement with one of the notchesin the arm 1.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying, drawings it will be readily seen that I .provide a claspwhich may be easily attached to a suspending member and held againstcasual displacement upon a garment, thereby obviating the necessity ofbuttons upon the garment.

Having described my invention, what I claim is" 1. The combination witha bail, of clamping-plates hinged thereto, one of said plates providedwith an enlarged head having a socket, and the other provided with a lipto iit within said socket, and a sliding bail carrying a cam-lever toclamp said plates.

2. The combination with a bail,of elongated clamping-plates hingedthereto, one of said plates comprising an elongated body terminating inan enlarged head provided with a socket, and the other having itslowerend bent to form a lip to iit within said socket, and a slidingbail carrying a cam-lever to close said plates.

3. In a clasp, the combination with a bail, of clamping-plates hingedthereto, one of said plates comprising an elongated body having notchesrunningtransversely thereof and terminaingin an enlarged headhavingastruok- In testimony whereof I afix my signature up portionserving as a socket, and the other in presence of two Witnesses. bein(relongated and havinv its lower end bentbto form a lip to fit Within saidsocket, a OTTO KEMPER 5 sliding bail embraoingsaid plates, and a eam-Witnesses:

lever mounted on said bail to clamp said ALFRED MCI-IENRY,

plates. J No. P. CONWAY.

